skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"
This resonates with me.

In other fields it can be easy to say when a job is done well. There can be clear guidelines. That said, other fields cut corners and do a “bad” job, too. Construction for example. It is probably possible to explain to average Joe why a damp proof course wasn’t installed properly or the insulation used is dangerous and flammable.

Programming as it exists now seems often in service of something else. So a deadline causes cut corners. So in this context a cut corner is fine and “we’ll fix it later”.

I suppose programming differs from a physical thing like construction. Sure you can replace the wiring and install a mezzanine but it’d be insanely impractical.

I’m going off on a tangent now...
Unlike Medicine, many of the ideas that we had in the past were better than the commonly accepted way things are done now.

Capability based security, for example was something that allowed you to run any program, with no danger to your system. It's not part of any common OS. They had it at Xerox PARC, but Steve Jobs chose not to take that part.

On the other hand, the PARC focus on replicating paper was a step backwards from work by Engelbart and others.

The limitation of a single desktop was put in place to allow children to ease into the desktop metaphor... it wasn't meant for adults to be stuck with the training wheels on.

I've been digging back, looking for the ideas we missed... and boy, there are some really powerful tools waiting to be reified in a modern context.
I'm curious, do people who get upset at this word never learn classical piano? Because, well, you're going to encounter that word quite frequently if you do.
If your electric car is plugged in, there's no risk, it can keep itself warm enough
East German commies would be proud to have you.

Nothing says dictatorship better than having a ill-defined concept such as hate-speech combines with the power of the ban hammer.

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See this "Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)":

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10205-roundup-of-sec...
ELI5 version here:

https://wallstreetplayboys.com/amc-gamestop-and-nokia-why-it...
Very nicely done, congrats!

I connected to a geographically far away server (US West, from Europe) and there's a bit of a delay between keypresses and movement, and the movement of other units is somewhat choppy, I imagine due to network latency.

Have you thought of implementing client-side prediction and entity interpolation? Your game seems uniquely well-suited for these techniques, and if you made them part of the core engine, you might find yourself with an extremely popular product, since it's a complex feature to implement that everyone wants.

I've written at length about the topic here: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.... If you go for it and you have questions or get stuck, I'll be happy to help :)
> That quote seems to get thrown around so often that it can be applied to anytime that anyone gets criticized for anything.

That's the point. It serves to show the perils of judging people by what they say, particularly if single offence against some perceived norms becomes a standard for punishment.

And there's another quote from that same period: "like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children" (Jacques Mallet du Pan).
Yeah this is just bastardized internet dialect. The word's increasing offensiveness (for good reason of course) in most of the rest of the English speaking world isn't reflected in WSB using it as a term of endearment. I call my dogs and cat the cutest shithead fuckers all the time while feeding them off my plate, sounds bad in public but in my house with my little group it's, well, pet names.
> The original claim was that squeezing an ill-advised short wasn't less moral than deliberately collapsing a currency and taking $1bn of funds from a government, or engaging in sketchy HFT practices. You said "then you don't understand this, or any of the things listed", implying that you believe that squeezing the short WAS less moral.

Sure. But you don't need morality to make the point. I will make that point though: things trading at their intrinsic value is more moral than not doing so, because it means nobody loses.

> "Storage costs" is a convenient and inoffensive way to say "the few remaining buyers with enough spare capacity smelled blood in the water and were able to price gouge".

Err. No. It means the storage capacity was completely gone, and people were scrambling to find new storage capacity. It doesn't seem like you're very familiar with how these things work.
> you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore

Yeah you do, just not in someone else's space.

Like if you want to bellow out some Klingon opera, you can, but they're gonna throw you out of Tesco.

Is "my house, my rules" really so hard to understand?
Version 1.6 (beta) is significantly faster (5-10x on my machine) than 1.5, largely due to code invalidations and parallelism. And 1.5 is faster (in both runtime and compiletime) than earlier versions.

I also imagine future iterations will focus on AOT options as well (we already have some in the form of PackageCompiler.jl),
Ask HN: Introduction to AI/ML Research
I'm looking into how AI and Machine Learning can help with my marketing clients, Can anyone suggest blogs/blogs/people to follow on how best to self learn and get involved in the ML area.

I have played with a few models but want to look at how they actually work and then start building out my own ideas.

Thanks
sqlalchemy in Python. Having used both ActiveRecord and sqlalchemy, I'll take sqlalchemy all day everyday.
thanks for replying, just updated my question.
What I would like to do is create Notebooks for my Data Scientists using JupyterHub and have each JupyterLab notebook in K8S, when needed I can allocate more resources per user, instead of having dedicated VMs in Cloud or in their workstations where managing environments is painful.
Own Your Identity (2011)
Maybe in the US, but I've seen some horribly dirty waterways in other countries.
This is really important context. WSB traders use words that some would consider offensive in an affectionate way. “Degenerate gambling addict” sounds terrible but it’s a compliment there.

Criticising people’s language without their context reminds me of Americans getting upset when they hear Spanish speakers say the word “black”.
Funny you should mention Neurology in this context - my experience in South Africa has been the same.

South Africa is renowned for grooming some of the world's best doctors (as subjective as this sounds, it is largely owed to the relentless influx of patients in state hospitals and the inevitable hands-on experience that follows).

So practically speaking, you have some very young yet very experienced doctors emerging from the assorted residency programmes and specialisations.

And yet the history is largely overlooked - which is mostly a function of "not enough time to learn this as well" - and I know this because I was fortunate enough to collaborate with a very old and respected Neurologist in Pretoria who has made it his personal mission to collate all the historical tidbits on his field, so that he can pass it on to the next generation.

He has subsequently prepared a rather extensive 2,000+ page archive on the history of Neurology (all manually typed up in his old Word installation), and I'm helping him transpose it onto a an easily searchable website so that his work can live on.

Anyhow your comment reminded me of this, thought I'd share :)
The one that bugs me the most is:

from datetime import datetime
Thank you for the explanation, I do agree that such a system does discourage you from using less expensive suppliers... assuming a lack of competition which you rightly point out is the bigger issue.

Of course, if there were sufficient honest competition it wouldn't need to be cost plus either, it could just be an honest competitive market price.

As long as they are actually manufacturing it the main pressure would be when they inevitably internally question why they are selling it for less than market price. I have seen that discussion, there's a big difference between "we can sell it profitably for this much" and "we can sell it for this much and make this much money".

So how do you provide that internal pressure? One honest competitor that publishes transparent methods for estimating the cost of manufacturing the drug along with case studies making it easy to do in other cases, and commit to using that process.

Or medicare of course, I don't see any reason it needs to be a private company. If they could estimate the true manufacturing cost in a vacuum I would certainly hope they could negotiate better but maybe they just don't know how because they aren't the manufacturer.
Yea, but we’re describing the basic mechanics of what’s happening, we don’t need to get into the details of delta hedging. The basic mechanic is that large groups of folks buying Out of the money calls results in the sellers of those options buying shares to offset risk in the trade. In effect, in an env where lots of shares are locked up due to shorts, an cash efficient way to cause a squeeze is to buy out out of the money options, causing more shares to be bought to offset risk, sending the price up.
This sounds like an aristocratic response to a revolution. I don’t mean this as dismissive, I mean that clearly there are enough people dissatisfied with the status quo that they are taking measures surprising to those satisfied with the status quo.
What you're missing in my opinion is how profitable drumming up existential fears about climate change in the population has been over the decades.
> „Retard“ has evolved and is universally regarded as an insult these days. Denying this entirely obvious fact is rather hard to square with your claim of being a linguist.

what exactly are you basing this "fact" on?
You know that economists actually have answers to all those questions, right? They're called Veblen goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

You didn't break economics with your "why are luxury goods so expensive even though they're not better" argument, unfortunately.
No, in the end, it will be the mob who will lose money, and it will invariably go into the pockets of more institutional vested interests who end up picking up the pieces cheap. Really Roobinhood is feeding fish to whales, over time.
> So you're claiming that they lost the entire fund, and are just... pretending it didn't happen?

Yes. That's right. You've exactly understood it.

> is there any evidence that they had a completely un-hedged position?

The question isn't, "Did they have a completely un-hedged position?" the question is, "Can the rest of their positions in the market cover this specific position?"

There's every reason to believe they're flat out lying about having liquidated their short position in $GME.

Don't worry though. At 4 p.m. on Friday, we'll know for sure. Just hang tight and wait. I predict its going to be a painful time for Melvin.
> Free for up to 25 monthly active users

This is the only mention of pricing that I can find on your site unless I sign up. I wonder what the cost is for >25 MAU.
Not trying to disagree at all. But you are describing the French Revolution, and there are lots of people who think great of it (not me)...
Suggested reading. This will take some searching.

- "As We May Think"

- Von Neumann's report on the EDVAC.

- The invention of index registers, originally called the "B Box". (The "A Box" being the main arithmetic unit.) Von Neumann missed that one.

- The original 19 page definition of ALGOL-60.

- HAKMEM, from MIT.

- A description of the SAGE air defense system.

- Something that describes how the Burroughs 5500, a very early stack machine, works.

- Something that describes how the IBM 1401 works. At one time, there were "business computers", all decimal, and they were very strange machines.

- Djykstra's original P and V paper.

- Wirth's Pascal manual, the one with the compiler listing

- The Bell System Technical Journal issue that describes UNIX.

- Jim Blinn's "A trip down the graphics pipeline", for the basics of classical computer graphics.
Facial recognition is used in China for everything and its citizens are alarmed
You know you can be against arbitrary and unfair enforcement and think it's good to act against bigoted speech, right?

The way you're talking about "Bad Words" sounds like you think discord should ignore these problems entirely. It solves the biased enforcement problem but it's a pretty awful way to do it.

> Generally speaking they (at least historically) tend to support the ability of people to say Bad Things on the internet!

Who is they? Discord has not been supportive of the ability to say arbitrary bad things on their hosting.
Wouldn't it be more explicit if there was a designated keyword that objects could use to access their own members instead of implicitly assuming that any first argument to a method is a reference to them, only called 'self' by convention?
I’d be interested in the mechanics of how that works. I understand buying and selling of shares, but do you just got it the exchange and tell them you want the shares destroyed or?
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/quotes/

They go on the list because the conclusions are transparently absurd, despite the ability to rationalize your way there through doublethink.
I remember the days when you could say some truly deplorable shit online and almost no one would care. People who didn’t want to hear it would ignore or block and move on.

Now it seems like so many topics and words are completely off limits. It’s very restrictive and I think it’s making the web a less free, a less open, and a less fun space.

It’s extremely hard to exist online when you have not only a raging group of pro censorship PC police hell bent on removing you, but coordinated networks of platforms that will remove you in unison.

So I think it’s less that people see online communities as their public squares, and more that it’s very difficult to exist online if don’t hold the same ideas and opinions of those controlling the platforms.
Sadly during COVID times, Youtube and gaming have absorbed and taken the place of my "IRL" stuff. Hopefully, it will be easy to switch back to being back in the real world socially.
I feel like OO is okay if objects implement good well thought out interfaces. The problem is designing good well thought out interfaces is hard. Also the rise of distributed computing causes problems for OO. Passing data between systems is pretty easy. Passing functions with that data, not so much.
Legal status is not stopping anyone from acquiring it, sure.

The fact that it is illegal DOES stop people from deciding to try to acquire it or even try it. Like me, for example, when I was growing up.

So that's instantly not including a segment of the population, and without knowing how big of a segment that is, the results are questionable.
I do understand the reporting around Tesla is very distorted to parrot the cult of Tesla, but come on...

Yes, Tesla has a huge lead in charging. Yes, Tesla has the best UX for charging. Yes, right now this is an important consideration point when buying an EV, especially in the US market that is lagging in terms of EV choice.

Do you really think that the guys at VW and others can't figure it out? It just takes a while. Just like it was with cars - they were behind Tesla, now they are in the driving seat in terms of numbers on the markets that are truly developed (in Norway Audi, VW and others are eating Tesla's lunch).

The chargers will become a commodity in 5 years time and Tesla really needs to figure out something special as the first mover advantage is going away. The chargers (and the fact that it's sold out) are the only thing that is currently preventing me to go and buy a Skoda Eniaq IV (size of Tesla X, costs less than Tesla 3). I'm sure that's changing in two years time when my current lease expires.

Perhaps it's a fully autonomous approach and perhaps they can really make it, but it's really hard to see through the PR bullshit Tesla produces. I guess we're in a phase where people are valuing Tesla more than all car makers combined (crazy, right?) and this hype obviously reflects in news.
> However, they were fighting for an extremely immoral cause, which the 1776 Revolutionaries were not really doing

Didn't the British make a deal with the natives to not expand west?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

That deal happened 2 years before the revolution. If you read the declaration of independence you'll find that it is very critical of that proclamation:

> The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted [...]
He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

It wasn't the only thing that caused the insurrection of the colonies, but it certainly was a component.

https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-proclamation-of...
I wonder which use cases Espresso has. Until now, it looks like a very tech-focus project. That's fine, no doubt about that. But I guess there are business use-cases, too. Any ideas?
How profitable? This guy in the article? Al Gore getting a speaking gig?

Aramco does $300B revenue annually, and they are less than 10% of the market. Only an idiot would go into climate change advocacy for the money.
A big part of the problem is these anodyne expressions "climate change" and "global warming". They say, "so what?"

We should only ever be saying "Global Climate Disruption".

I am estimating a 50% chance of global civilization collapse by 2030.

It starts with crop failure in tropical and subtropical countries. Fishery collapse, as coral reefs are wiped out by bleaching and acidification, slashes access to protein. Famine drives mass refugee migration across borders.

Rich, temperate countries panic at the influx and allow fascists into power (as has already happened in Brazil, Hungary, the Philippines, Turkey, India and Russia, and is only forestalled in the US, Italy, France, and Germany; pace China and the former SSRs).

Fascists in power will (as they do) start wars, disrupting trade, generating economic crises, and more wars spiraling out of control, and ultimately nuclear exchange.

A big part of the problem is actually refrigerants; HFCs currently in use, if vented, force as much heating as all the CO2 already in the atmosphere. We could remove CO2, in principle, but not the HFCs.

You might suggest 2030 is too soon, and 2040 more likely. I hope so, but it doesn't make that much difference, really. If we don't act like 2030 is the deadline, we will hit one soon enough.
Turn off the audio and read the subtitles on this - https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kxmyg5/cant...

You probably recognise this scene from The Wolf of Wall Street. The text uses “degenerate”, “autist” and so on but the whole text and di Caprio’s manner strongly implies that these are positive, desirable qualities. He uses them as terms of endearment and compliments. The rest of /r/wsb is the same. Context matters.
> You seem to think “retarded” is magnitudes worse than all of the other negative words you used and worth shutting down a community for.

To be clear, it absolutely is.

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-wor...

I'm genuinely hoping the huge number of sophists trying to defend it are doing so because they genuinely feel kind of bad for having done so and don't want to comprehend the moral implications of having used it casually for years.
I haven't read Flash Boys but if it describes HFT as front running then it's just incorrect.

"Front running" doesn't just mean "getting there quicker than someone else". It is a specific conflict of interest problem where the same people or firm are acting in more than one capacity - agent and principal or agent for different parties - at the same time (eg I see large customer order coming in then trade for myself/my firm before I trade for the client, potentially moving the market for them which would hurt them if our trades are both in the same direction).
Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Only a specific form of low-quality NAT--one that is certainly often encountered but isn't at all common at the router or ISP level--is incompatible with WebRTC in a way that would cause you to need TURN.
Except that "retard" is using people with a genuine genetic disorder as a stick to hit other people with.
Asia's largest photo is so high-res, you can see people's faces
How is pointing out that the Stock Market is broken a bad idea?
What’s wild to me is that the legacy car companies watched tesla do this over a ten year period and basically did nothing except mock them during that time.

Even now the legacy companies are held up by few EV models, bad range, bad software, bad dealership experience, and bad charging networks.

Tesla may be overvalued, but I have little faith the existing companies will survive this transition.

It feels like they’re all RIM when the iPhone launched, mocking it and then suddenly talking about how the competition is getting a little heated.

If Apple also gets in its even more hopeless for legacy companies.

It’s also wild none of them took Tesla up on the offer to use their superchargers - I think it would have been worth nearly any price.
Yes, there’s, like, at least a dozen post-docs financing a burgeoning ramen habit off of it.
If you’re using Chrome you can get some insight by opening chrome://webrtc-internals in another tab.

There is some documentation here https://testrtc.com/webrtc-internals-documentation/ and while trying to remember that link I just came across https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/analyzertc-visuali... which looks promising to make the internals data more usable.
The thing is, that all the arguments they now bring up for the move, have been true in 2018 as well ...
Diagnose Covid from Your Smartphone
I never said I was in America. In fact, it's much more likely I live outside of America.

Price of labor is way less. And so is cost of materials.
The only decent solution in my view would be a new, separate
kind of terminal spec, maybe even completely focused at terminal
emulators. It could make sense to handle input better(maybe even
with keyup/keydown events) and maybe display images in a
non-hacky way(it can already be done via w3m...kind of).

Changing the existing standards just won't work as it would
break a ton of programs, although if I'm being honest - while I
like the idea of such a terminal rework - I don't know if it can
be done nowadays without it opening the flood gates by
developers who just can't restrain themselves from adding so
many features it might as well be a new browser engine.

And either way I don't think it's worth the effort as those
input limitations only affect a few specific situations. I use
hundreds of custom keybindings in Vim and so far the only
obstacle I encountered was the `Tab` & `Ctrl-i` overlap. If I
need to hold down more than one modifier I did something wrong
anyway.